While Clapton, Beck, and Page chased guitar-god glory, Yardbirds drummer Jim McCarty staged his own quiet rebellion in 1972—by forming one of rock's most overqualified supergroups no one had heard of. Trading drumsticks for songwriting, McCarty founded Shoot with guitarist Dave Green (Raw Material), bassist Bill Russell, and drummer Craig Collinge (Third World War), recording their lone album On The Frontier at Abbey Road with future XTC producer John Leckie. The result was a genre-fluid detour through jazz, country-rock, and psych-pop, bolstered by pedal steel ace B.J. Cole and Renaissance keyboardist John Tout. Though the band dissolved shortly after their safari-themed promo shoot (complete with khakis and a stuffed leopard), On The Frontier endures as a fascinating crossroads between McCarty's Renaissance past and Box of Frogs future. Think Like A Key Music's reissue gives Shoot their long-overdue spotlight—proving some footnotes deserve to be chapters.